I've been playing with Spotify & Youtube music for a year or so.
Youtube music seems to have a lot more content than I recall having access to with Google music. Whilst the catalogue has a decent variety, access to basically anything available on Youtube, the quality is often grim. Also as much of it is freely available on Youtube the subscription feature is little more than a payment system that allows the playing of youtube audio when my phone screen is off.
Spotify seems to have far less variety but quality is decent overall and is a little more flexible: it integrates fine with my phone/laptop/ps4 and even runs nicely on a headless server.
I've found all the algorithms on all these services generally annoying, Youtube, human curated, playlists seem a little more reliable for hearing new and shiny things.
Youtube music seems to have a lot more content than I recall having access to with Google music. Whilst the catalogue has a decent variety, access to basically anything available on Youtube, the quality is often grim. Also as much of it is freely available on Youtube the subscription feature is little more than a payment system that allows the playing of youtube audio when my phone screen is off.
Spotify seems to have far less variety but quality is decent overall and is a little more flexible: it integrates fine with my phone/laptop/ps4 and even runs nicely on a headless server.
I've found all the algorithms on all these services generally annoying, Youtube, human curated, playlists seem a little more reliable for hearing new and shiny things.